How to do an accessibility audit
You know what accessibility is. You're trying to improve several apps at a time. How do you audit everything without getting overwhelmed? Read this!
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Successful business accounting requires developers and analysts
Developers and analysts should support their finance team as it’s valuable for their company as a whole.
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An Introduction to the Clojure Standard Library
The Clojure standard library is a treasure trove of useful functions. Knowing it's content can speed up development and lead to a better functional design.
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Helping unicorns stay weird
Everyone loves swag at conferences, and t-shirts always seem to be the most popular. So when uSwitch sponsors conferences we make sure we always have some to hand out.
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An Apprenticeship at uSwitch
Hello! My name is Charlotte, and I've been a developer at uSwitch for three months. I've passed my probation and I wanted to share my experience so far.
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Using tagging to create an intuitive filtering experience
We let customers filter by all kinds of things - everything from provider, to price, to download speed. This post explores how those filters work.
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GenStage for continuous job processing
Run down of our approach to continuously process SQS messages using GenStage in Elixir.
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How we use AWS lambda
Serverless with AWS lambda. Our practices: Clojure/ClojureScript, chaining lambdas, monorepo, environments, CI and gotchas.
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Using Nix to manage multiple Ruby versions
Nix is a powerful build tool that we use across a number of projects. One of the problems it solves for us is multiple versions of Ruby without rbenv or RVM
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Integrating React components with complex legacy forms
In this post I will walk through some of the techniques used integrating a new React component with a complex existing form on our website.
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What can data scientists learn from the election polling disaster?
I would like to discuss what was wrong with the election polling and what we can learn from those mistakes when making data-driven decisions.
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Unifying client and server side form validation with Clojure(Script)
In this post we talk about the sweet spot we found for applying Clojure/ClojureScript in combination and the lessons learned along the way.
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Zero downtime Clojure deployments
Clojure, microservices and AWS are awesome but can lead to long deployment times. Avoid this by following our remove-upgrade-add deployment approach.
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